Miller Environmental - Mon March 11, 2019
Miller Environmental Finds Its 'Sweet Spot' With Larger Excavator
For most construction professionals, new excavator purchases are predicated on a number of wide-ranging considerations, including: current and future project demands, fleet upgrade requirements, environmental compliance, cost, and yes, even personal preference....
AASHTO Journal - Mon February 25, 2019
FRA Rescinds Funding for California High Speed Rail Project
In a Feb. 19 letter, the Federal Railroad Administration informed the California High Speed Rail Authority that it intends to cancel $929 million in federal grants yet to be paid for building a high-speed rail link between the Los Angeles region and the San Francisco bay area....
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - Fri February 22, 2019
Ritchie Bros. Sells Over $23M of Equipment Largest Tipton Auction Ever
Ritchie Bros. conducted its largest Tipton, Calif., auction ever, selling more than 2,250 equipment items and trucks for more than $23 million on February 15. A record 4,850+ online. U.S. buyers purchased approximately 90 percent of the equipment, including 60 percent purchased by California buyers, while international buyers from countries including France, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates purchased 10 percent of the equipment....
Office of Sen. Bill Dodd - Wed February 13, 2019
Sen. Dodd Introduces Bill to Streamline Project Funding
Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, has introduced legislation that would reduce the cost of road, bridge, bicycle and pedestrian projects that use federal transportation funds, allowing more improvements with the same amount of money....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Wed February 13, 2019
San Diego's Blue Line Expands Via $2.1B Mid-Coast Corridor
Large-scale work continues on a $2.1B Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project that will extend San Diego's Blue Line service with a new light rail system. Transit service will be extended from the Santa Fe Depot in Downtown San Diego north to the University City community including Old Town, the University of California, San Diego and Westfield UTC shopping center — a distance of 10.9 mi....
The City of San Diego - Wed February 13, 2019
EPA Awards $614M Loan to Bolster San Diego Water Project
San Diego Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer joined the acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to officially accept a $614 million federal loan to help finance the first phase of Pure Water San Diego — an innovative water recycling program that will provide one-third of the city's drinking supply by 2035....
Kathleen Ronayne - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue February 12, 2019
UPDATE: Trump Weighs in After California Governor Pulls Plug on High-Speed Train
UPDATE: Following Californa Gov. Gavin Newsom's Feb. 12 announcement that he drop plans to construct a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, President Trump demanded that the state return $3.5 billion in federal dollars that had gone to fund the project....
Emily Buenzle - Mon February 04, 2019
Sinkhole Claims Construction Equipment
A sinkhole recently swallowed a piece of construction equipment in California. The sinkhole appeared after heavy rains drenched the area north of Malibu, Calif., NBC Los Angeles reported. Crews were using construction equipment to clean up roads in the aftermath, when the sinkhole appeared and took the vehicle, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department said....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 30, 2019
Trains Avoid Traffic With $985.1M Fresno Trench
California High Speed Rail's Fresno Trench & State Route 180 Passageway project will take trains under highways and streets to avoid car traffic. The result will be greater safety for drivers using SR 180 and other streets in Fresno....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 16, 2019
Work Begins on $1.5B Shasta Dam Raising
Twenty million dollars of pre-construction work is under way at the Shasta Dam and reservoir in advance of a $1.5 billion project to raise the dam 18.5 ft. Shasta Dam is the largest reservoir in California and second largest in the United States after Grand Cooley....
